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  • Striscia di Gaza: suor Tighe (Caritas Jerusalem)

    Gaza 2023 — high-tech war revisited

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on November 14, 2023 by R.U.P.E. Staff (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Nov 27, 2023)

    The Times remarks that “The speed, precision and scale of Hamas’s attack had thrown the Israeli military into disarray, and for many hours afterward civilians were left to fend for themselves.” It took two hours for the Israeli military to declare a state of war.

  • PRINCIPLES OF RADICAL POLITICAL ECONOMICS

    Questions posed by a movement

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on October 4, 2022 by RUPE (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Oct 08, 2022)

    “These are all poor Adivasi villagers who take time off from their daily-wage labour or farming, students who come when school permits, or women who bring their children because they have nowhere else to leave them. On down days the numbers may be a few dozen, on special days the number swells to thousands.”

  • Fall-out of the Ukraine conflict on India’s economy

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on April 18, 2022 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.))

    The Problem Is Actually At Home

  • Sculpture of Mexica Goddess Chicomecoatl with Ears of Corn - Museum of Anthropology - Mexico City - Mexico (Photo: Wikicommons)

    The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 3)

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on February 6, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 12, 2021)

    The story of Mexico’s agriculture can be organised around two threads: corn and land.

  • A 'Nihang' holds the Tricolor during farmers' tractor rally as part of their ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Dankaur in Gautam Buddha Nagar District, Thursday, Jan. 07, 2021. PTI

    The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 2)

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on February 3, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 10, 2021)

    In the previous part of this article we saw that the Indian rulers are actively preparing the legal groundwork for parting peasants from their land. In the following part we place this in an international context.

  • #FarmersDyingModiEnjoying

    The Indian farmers are right: their land is at stake (Part 1)

    Originally published: The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.) on January 26, 2021 (more by The Research Unit for Political Economy (R.U.P.E.)) (Posted Feb 10, 2021)

    The protesting kisans on the borders of Delhi repeat one thing over and over: When fighting against the three farm-related Acts, they are fighting to save their land.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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